Word: gilliatt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Suicide Academy is left as a palatial metaphor hardly explored and barely furnished. It is largely unpeopled, too, except for Wolf's assistant, a splendidly grotesque, wasp-tongued Negro named Gilliatt. Archly antiSemitic, he quotes upbeat Talmudic texts to needle Wolf, and continually accuses him of secretly sabotaging the academy's sacred neutrality in favor of life. Gilliatt reasons that the Jews invented resurrection and so are rotten with humanitarian sympathy. Gilliatt may be the best bit-part player of the literary year...
...replaced by a glowing embryo on the bed and, presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed in a sphere in our own solar system, watching Earth. He has plainly become an integral part of the cosmos, perhaps as Life suggests, as a "star-child" or, as Penelope Gilliatt suggests, as the first of a species of mutant that will inhabit the Earth and begin to grow. What seemed a linear progression may ultimately be cyclical, in that the final effect of the monolith on man can be interpreted as a progress ending in the beginning...
...Yorker ran a respectful appreciation by Guest Critic Penelope Gilliatt, followed nine weeks later with an ecstatic 9,000-word analysis by another guest critic, Pauline Kael. In Chicago, the Tribune's reviewer sided with the naysayers. He called it "stomach churning": the American said it was "unappetizing." But the Daily News acclaimed it as one of the most significant motion pictures of the decade; the Sun-Times said it was "astonishingly beautiful." It seemed as if two different Bonnie and Clydes were slipping into towns simultaneously...
Painters have abstracted her. Minor poets have done minor poems about her. In the current Harper's, Penelope Gilliatt, wife of Playwright John Osborne, moons about Marilyn's "innocent and anxious talent'' that was wasted in the Hollywood child-woman fixation: "One sensed that Marilyn Monroe had probably been made tragically unhappy by the infant mold that was forced upon...
Divorced. By Dr. Roger Gilliatt, 38, English neurologist who was best man at Princess Margaret's wedding: Penelope Conner Gilliatt, 29, redheaded film critic for the London Observer; after seven years of marriage, no children; on grounds of her adultery with Playwright John Osborne, 32; in London...